. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. eeman andslave,S(|uire and rustic. In itsrepose mingle the dust ofcollege presidents, soldiersof forgotten wars, andministers of wellnigh for-gotten doctrines. The ear-liest inscription is in 1653,but the interments antecedent to this date were made, in manycases doubtless, without any graven tablet or other stone thansome heavy mass selected at hazard, to protect the remains frombeasts of prey. In still other instances the lines traced on thestones have been effaced by natural causes, and even the rudemonuments themselves have disappeared beneath t
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. eeman andslave,S(|uire and rustic. In itsrepose mingle the dust ofcollege presidents, soldiersof forgotten wars, andministers of wellnigh for-gotten doctrines. The ear-liest inscription is in 1653,but the interments antecedent to this date were made, in manycases doubtless, without any graven tablet or other stone thansome heavy mass selected at hazard, to protect the remains frombeasts of prey. In still other instances the lines traced on thestones have been effaced by natural causes, and even the rudemonuments themselves have disappeared beneath the mould. The slumberers mound grows fresh and slowly disappears ;The mosses creep, the gray stones lean,Earth hides his date and years Among the earlier tenants of Gods Acre, as Longfellow hasreverently distinguished it, are Andrew Belcher, the innkeeper,Stephen Day, the printer, and Samuel Green, his successor,Elijah Corlet, master of the faire Grammar Schoole, Dunster,first President of the College, and Thomas Shepard, mmister. CAMBRIDGE COMMON AND. LANDMARKS. 277 of the church in Cambridge, who succeeded Hooker when hedeparted to plant the Colony of Connecticut. In their variouscallings, these were the forefathers of the hamlet; Old Cam-bridge is really concentrated within this narrow space. The consideration which attached to the position of governorof the College is indicated by the long, pompous Latin inscrip-tions, to be deciphered only by the scholar. Classic lore, asdead to the world in general as is the subject of its eulogium,followed them to their tombs, — But for mine own part it was all Greek to me, — and is there stretched out at full length in many a line ofsounding import. Dunster, Chauncy, Leverett, Wads worth,Holyoke, AVillard, and Webber lie here awaiting the greatCommencement, where Freshman may at once attain the high-est degree, and where College parchment availeth nothing. The disappearance of many of the leaden family-escutcheonshas alre
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